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Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike has taken a step towards Extended Producer Responsibility by trying to rope in the major manufacturers of difficult-to-recycle products. The lack of a law in this regard has stopped BBMP from making EPR mandatory in the city, point out waste management experts. BBMP’s Special Commissioner for Solid Waste Management Darpan Jain said that the civic body is in talks with large-scale manufacturers of such waste to put up processing units in the city. He said manufacturers of rubber tyres, plastic packaging material, sanitary napkins, aerosol bottles and other materials that pose a challenge to recycling would be roped in to take responsibility for their products. Urban expert V Ravichander, associated with Social Venture Partners, Bengaluru who have come up with a study “Extracting Value from Bengaluru's Dry Waste Chain” and suggested the EPR initiative, said that an EPR regime is the future as the responsibility for waste management moved up-chain through the initiative.
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